• How about a couple of updates on the prospects for two comedy sequels? Anchorman 2 and Ghostbusters 3.
• The best part of this clip of the CEO of Nike is where he says that creepy ad with Tiger Woods' dad represented an attempt to make us all "emotional stakeholders" in Tiger's situation. I don't know about anyone else, but I can firmly say on my own behalf: No, thank you.
• Hey, what do you do right after the network you're in charge of runs a special that seems oddly forgetful on the topic of women existing outside the entertainment field? Become the new president of Lifetime — "television for women." I don't really watch a lot of Lifetime, but: [sigh].
A welcome memoir, an anticipated interview, and more on e-books, after the jump.
• In a development I actually think is really great, Michael Oher will be publishing his own memoir now that his parents' story, The Blind Side, has been so thoroughly covered. It's long been my position that some of the uncomfortable things about the way that story gets covered are the simple result of the fact that he hasn't chosen to talk very much — as this article points out, he contributed little in the way of interviews to either the book or the movie — and I'll be happy to hear what the guy's got to say.
• Speaking of books, one commentator has had it up to here with blog-to-book deals.
• Another Conan tidbit: he'll be ending the press blackout just about as soon as he contractually can, on 60 Minutes this weekend.
• Our ongoing curiosity about the future of publishing and e-books requires that we point you to yesterday's Fresh Air discussion of whether electronic books can "save" the publishing industry — which presupposes that it needs saving, but perhaps that's where we are.
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